Legion III - Emperor's Children (finished)

Careful of the edge there.

Despite a few mistakes and back to bad quality pictures (which the Purity Seal seems to make even worse), but here is what I consider to my first "tabletop quality" model, by which I mean the standard isn't quite up to the other models I've done. And that's ok, because I do want to learn how to get an army painted much quicker.

Firstly, the airbrush highlighting doesn't show in the picture, but it is acceptable on the model. I've tried to use it more for a natural light/shadow effect, and there's been no purple edge highlighting of armour plates, other than a very small amount on the helmet. I think the Blood Angels will have to continue to receive that step, if for no other reason than to tie it in with the models already done, but keeping it minimal.

Also, it seems that Hashut Copper and Fulgurite Copper are incredibly similar. I thought the latter might be a bit brigher, but there doesn't actually appear to be much difference between the two, at least with my paint bottles. Could just be the mix. So if I was to highlight again, I might go for one of the brass metallics for edging instead.

Pinning the arms didn't really work. They're not at quite the right angle; the gun tilts away from the body a bit. So back to blu-tac it is in future, but I'll stick to base coat one colour with the airbrush, then assemble as much as I can for the highlighting steps, before back into pieces for easier brush access.

The model isn't centred on the base properly. Drilled a hold for pinning in the wrong location, and the glue was pulling off too much of the base, so the model is stuck there now. This is something I'm going to work on: glue can pull off the texture paints, so the model doesn't stick to the base as well as it should. I'm looking at pinning to help in this by achoring the model a bit more with a metal hook of sorts. Otherwise in this case I went for a light coloured base to contrast the darker nature of the model. Apparently it's a bit of "mountainous mud covered in snow" battlefield.

Still, the idea behind this model was airbrush practice, and that worked well.

-- silly painter.